{"id":135,"date":"2010-12-17T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T17:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/?p=135"},"modified":"2011-01-27T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T01:03:09","slug":"it-needed-to-be-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"it needed to be said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I caught myself heading in a bad direction, a stream of thoughts that was clearly going to lead to ever more dangerous and self-destructive thinking.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I decided that it was time to have a little conversation with myself about all of this and the funk I&#8217;ve fallen into.<\/p>\n<p>So I said, Self, it&#8217;s time to stop.\u00c2\u00a0 Just stop.\u00c2\u00a0 You are a grown fucking adult, you are almost thirty years old for crying out loud!\u00c2\u00a0 (And yes, I know, I need to turn 29 first).\u00c2\u00a0 You can&#8217;t do this anymore, mope around like you&#8217;re sixteen and question your life, choices and a bunch of crap you\u00c2\u00a0can&#8217;t even change.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You\u00c2\u00a0have more important\u00c2\u00a0things to do.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(I would say more but right now I really do have something else to do, stress test at the cardiology lab!\u00c2\u00a0 No worries, I&#8217;m fine, just one of those fun precautionary things that you hope ends up being nothing more than a waste of time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I caught myself heading in a bad direction, a stream of thoughts that was clearly going to lead to ever more dangerous and self-destructive thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 And I decided that it was time to have a little conversation with myself about all of this and the funk I&#8217;ve fallen into. So I said, Self, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}